Donald Trump Can't Read?

Points taken and agreed it is a very large rabbit hole we don’t want to subject all these other good people to, so no more Roe v Wade.

I wish I could cancel your vote out, but I can’t. I’ll vote for Clinton, but whether I do or not won’t change the fact that Connecticut will go Clinton. NC on the other hand is a toss up.

As others here have stated, I’m voting Anti-Trump, not Pro-Clinton.

I’ve seen the needle and the damage done, Trump is more damage from my viewpoint.

BTW, X; are the mountains in NC still considered the Smokies, or is that just SC and GA? I have a sister who lives in Norther GA, and I flew into Spartanburg, SC and rented a car and drove. Frigging beautiful area; bootlegger heaven from what I’ve been told.

Best of luck to all of us.

bnw wrote:

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wv wrote:

Billy loathes Hillary, X. Just so you know. Not sure you know that.

I didn’t.

I was just giving my opinion based on the only two realistic choices.
But kudos to Billy for being on the right side of that one.

Billy loathes Hildabeast so much he wants people to vote for her.

I’ve never advocated for her, bnw. Have never said people should vote for Clinton. I’d much rather people vote Green or Socialist. If they ran a candidate, I’d probably advocate for the Democratic Socialists of America more than the Greens.

Yeah, I’ve advocated against voting for Trump. But not for Clinton. To me, it’s crazy to talk about wanting real change in America while choosing Trump and the GOP. He’s not going to “drain the swamp” or alter the status quo. He’s not going to shake things up. He’s just going to give us the same old same old GOP version, and put lipstick on that pig.

Though he will owe the Alt-Right in large part for his win. And white supremacists are going to want a return on their investment and their votes. Bottom line: As terrible as Clinton is, Trump is bigly worse.

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TSRF wrote:

BTW, X; are the mountains in NC still considered the Smokies, or is that just SC and GA? I have a sister who lives in Norther GA, and I flew into Spartanburg, SC and rented a car and drove. Frigging beautiful area; bootlegger heaven from what I’ve been told.

Best of luck to all of us.

Yessir. Here’s the view near Asheville.

We spend a lot of time hiking the Blue Ridge too. There’s a spot up near Graveyard Fields that has the most magnificent spot to camp. Fire pit, right on the edge of a babbling stream, 360 mountain views, and about a half mile from the lower falls. Just gotta keep an eye out for the bears.

That reminds me of Clingman’s Dome.
http://www.visitmysmokies.com/blog/smoky-mountains/temporary-clingmans-dome-closure/

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• This reply was modified 8 years ago by bnw.

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Sorry if it’s been posted here before

CHOMSKY: Well, let me give an example. When I’m driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I’m listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it’s plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it’s at a level of superficiality that’s beyond belief.
In part, this reaction may be due to my own areas of interest, but I think it’s quite accurate, basically. And I think that this concentration on such topics as sports makes a certain degree of sense. The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway, without a degree of organization that’s far beyond anything that exists now, to influence the real world. They might as well live in a fantasy world, and that’s in fact what they do. I’m sure they are using their common sense and intellectual skills, but in an area which has no meaning and probably thrives because it has no meaning, as a displacement from the serious problems which one cannot influence and affect because the power happens to lie elsewhere.

Now it seems to me that the same intellectual skill and capacity for understanding and for accumulating evidence and gaining information and thinking through problems could be used — would be used — under different systems of governance which involve popular participation in important decision-making, in areas that really matter to human life.

There are questions that are hard. There are areas where you need specialized knowledge. I’m not suggesting a kind of anti-intellectualism. But the point is that many things can be understood quite well without a very far-reaching, specialized knowledge. And in fact even a specialized knowledge in these areas is not beyond the reach of people who happen to be interested.

wv wrote:

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Well, in a perfect world, the debates would have been between Bernie, Jill Stein, Rand Paul, and Mike Pence. Gary Johnson just doesn’t do it for me, so I uninvited him.

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I would add Lassie, myself.

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Lassie can’t read either, so I guess it’s apropos.